Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there – or failing to get there. – Max Lerner
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. – Max Lerner
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. – Max Lerner
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. – Max Lerner
Theres something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. – Julie Burchill